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Joseph Slepian
Joseph Slepian
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him to enroll at Harvarc! University at age 16, he macle Phi Beta Kappa en cl received his bachelor's degree in 1911, his master's degree in 1912, en c!
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According to colleagues Slepian macle maximum use of his mathematical talents in his new career, his inventions invariably being the consequence of careful science en cl theoretical analysis. In fact his talent for invention hacl aIreacly emerged at Cornell, where in 1915 he filet!
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The clelon circuit breaker was also the result of cletailecl scientific research, in this instance on the nature en cl origin of arcs. As in his other research his work always involvecl observation en cl experiment as well as theory.
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A highlight in STepian's career was his receipt of the Edison Mecial in 1947, in part for his inventions of the autovalve lightning arrester, clelon circuit breaker, en cl ignitron cites! above.
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his own favorable atmosphere at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, a moclel for other corporations at the time the Forest Hills laboratory was cre
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Despite leaving academia as a profession STepian never lost interest in teaching, fulfi~lecl at Westinghouse by his own initiative in organizing informal courses on a variety of topics, inclucling vector analysis, the theory of electricity en cl magnetism, the kinetic theory of gases, en cl the conduction of electricity through gases. In addition, besides practical inventions, in 1922 he filet!
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Slepian suffered a stroke in 1951, but though handicapped by health problems, he continued at the Westinghouse laboratory until his retirement on February 2S, 1956. In private life he lovecl music, art, en cl literature.
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David, both of whom follower! with distinction in their father's footsteps, Robert at Westinghouse en cl David at Bell Laboratories.
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AIEE 48:523-27. 1930 Theory of a new valve type lightning arrester.
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The experimental validity of Paschen's law and of a similar relation for the reignition potential of an alternating current arc.
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19:87-90. 1955 Failure of the ionic centrifuge.
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